mamon

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by mamon 6y ago
> delegate your decision making to the lowest possible level [...] this will make the average decision slightly worse. I don't think that's necessarily true. Information going up the chain of command will always be a bit outdat
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by mamon 6y ago
In Europe salaried employees are expected to work 8 hours a day. Anything above that is overtime, and not only it is paid overtime, it actually pays 150% of your normal hourly rate. or 200%, or more, depending on the country.
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by mamon 6y ago
Broken clock shows the right time twice a day. Biased people being correct is an exception, not the rule. We should be suspicious of people with know biases.
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by mamon 6y ago
Depends on your definition of "discovery". Christopher Columbus's trip to America changed the course of history. Any previous visits by the lost at sea sailors are not important.
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by mamon 6y ago
But why put that info in commit message instead of a comment in the file itself?
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by mamon 6y ago
Which still makes it only 97th biggest city in the world: https://www.worldometers.info/population/largest-cities-in-t...
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by mamon 6y ago
"Past performance is not indicative of future results" EDIT: it might be a lawyerspeak, but it is still a good advice: there's a reason why Bitcoin has been down $14k this week and that reason is the settlement with NYAG in t
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by mamon 6y ago
So down from the 2 billion peak?
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by mamon 6y ago
>> the Supreme Court is a political creature and tends not to stray too far from popular opinion. Supreme Court's role is to be a stabilizing factor, because majority can switch from Democrats to Republicans every four years. Su
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by mamon 6y ago
Tangentially related: there's a guy in Poland running a blog about personal finance (i.e. some advice how to save money on your bills, or how to start investing in stocks, etc.) Some time ago he self-published a book, promoted it thro
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by mamon 6y ago
Do you think it is fair for a person who owns $2M worth house to still receive benefits paid from taxpayers money? Because my take on this is: you're millionaire so you can take care of yourself, no public money for you. Also, no, they
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by mamon 6y ago
Pretty basic question: the author states in the very beginning: "I used to work at AWS". Is it possible that things went smoothly for him, because they still remembered him, and prioritized his requests because of personal relatio
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by mamon 6y ago
You're missing the point: trading means that you have to find someone willing to do the trade with you. If no one wants to buy your Tethers then you're doomed. Redeeming is completely different - the issuer of your asset has a
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by mamon 6y ago
Combined net worth of Metallica members is almost $1B (, so it's basically "billionaires at war" case. No reason to root for them as underdogs.
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by mamon 6y ago
Ok, so now I get why Bitcoin is regarded as "deflationary": on long enough timescale almost all bitcoins will be lost this way, and the last man that still possesses his wallet keys will be a trillionaire. /s
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by mamon 6y ago
Since properly learning a programming language is such a huge time investment for most people, once they do it the language becomes part of their identity. Many people will, in professional setting, introduce themselves as "Java/G
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by mamon 6y ago
> You do realize that most gold and silver traded on the COMEX is also "fake" in the sense that they're trading in amounts of underlying gold and silver that could never ever be delivered at the COMEX prices? Which means t
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by mamon 6y ago
US military power still has it's limits. Imagine for example that China refuses to trade in USD, demanding payment in physical gold for all the goods manufactured there. Or Russia refuses USD payments for oil and gas. No way the US Nav
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by mamon 6y ago
> most plausible explanation is that they're almost completely backed with bitcoin. Even if that's true it would be a direct contradiction to what they promise to their customers, that Tether is fully backed by USD. Any angry c
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by mamon 6y ago
That has been done multiple times. It is easy: just record the sound and compare acoustic signatures. And yes, Stradivarius is different. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/21/scientists-f...
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by mamon 6y ago
How about [1]? Corrupt organizaiton's loyalties typically lie with those who sponsor it. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-pled...
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by mamon 6y ago
So Google is still getting all your email, you're just never logging in to Gmail UI... Don't see the point.
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by mamon 6y ago
Some companies make a business out of it: https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-postgresql-oper...
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by mamon 6y ago
100m of German speakers are concentrated in three neighbor countries: Germany, Austria, Switzerland. It's not like a German can go to a different continent and find people speaking their language (like a Spanish or French person would)
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by mamon 6y ago
I guess it depends on the country. In Poland my experience is that every time EU passes some regulation Polish parliament passes the corresponding bill implementing it. So even if we left EU tomorrow those bills will still be in effect. Als
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by mamon 6y ago
He says that bitcoin has "no intrinsic value" and he's wrong about that, because value of something is not decided by financial experts, but by people willing to pay for it (even if those people are criminals looking for new
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by mamon 6y ago
That's exactly how "Proof of Work" consensus algorithm works: hasking a single block has to waste enough electricity to make forking the blockchain too costly.
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by mamon 6y ago
Bitcoin exists for just over a decade now. Give governments and financial regulatory bodies some time to catch up and they will destroy it, maybe creating their own cryptocurrencies in process.
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by mamon 6y ago
Nouriel Roubini has a well known hate for Bitcoin, which probably originates from the fact that it escapes his alleged "expertise": he hasn't foreseen its popularity, and rise in value. Now he hates it, because this past mis
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by mamon 6y ago
>> Sports are a special case as, arguably, they're mostly boring This only applies to american football, where you have on average 12 minutes of actual gameplay over 3.5 hour match. Soccer or basketball are much more dynamic, and

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